FULL SPEECH: Celebrating South Africa’s Living Human Treasures – Ramaphosa

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

TODAY we celebrate the unique and diverse heritage of this place we call home: Mzantsi Afrika, Afrika Borwa, Afurika Tshipembe, Suid-Afrika.

Heritage Day is a time to appreciate the many facets of our cultures, customs and traditions. 

It is the time when we put them on display to appreciate and celebrate and share our cultures and traditions with others.

We are the nation of the maskandi, Malay choral music and sokkie treffers, but also of amapiano.

We are the nation that is taking the world by storm with the #JerusalemaChallenge, as young and old in France, the UK, Jamaica, Angola and even in Palestinian East Jerusalem itself are getting in on the craze.

We are a nation of eleven official languages that also celebrates other languages commonly used by various communities in South Africa, including German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

We are a nation